Display vending card



April 5, 1932.. F. H. DRIVER DISPLAY VENDING CARD Filed July 22, 1931RAZOR BLAIQ ES n05 Co. me.

ATTORNEY WITNESS-ES Patented Apr. 1 932.

UNITED: STATES P'AETE FREDERICK I-L'DRIVER, OF; BLOOMFIELD, JERSEY,ASSIGN OR TO. THE NEVIN S- CHURCH PRESS, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., .ACORPORATION OFNEW JERSEY? DISPLAY VENDING cann- 7 Application filed July22, 1931.. SerialNo. 552,462.

This inventionrelates to display cards and particularly to an improvedvending display card, the object being to provide a structure wherein anarticle may be held in position for 5 display while at the same time itis in position for vending.

Another object of the invention is to provide a display vending cardwherein parts of the card are pressed out to present a holding 1| box orcompartment while the remaining part presents areas for the reception ofadvertising matter.

In the accompanying drawings Figure 1 is a front view of a displayvending .card disclosing an embodiment of the invention.

Figure 2 is a rear View of the central part of the structure shown inFigure 1 illustrating how the pressed out tongues are folded to presenta retaining box structure.

Figure 3 is a sectional view through Figure 1 on line 33.

Figure 4 is a rearv view of the card shown in Figure 1 before thetongueshave been folded.

In selling razor blades or other articles, it has been found desirableto mount the article to be vended on a card which has been providedwithadvertising matter and explanatory matter whereby the goods arepresented in a way to display their desirabilities. Heretofore cards ofdifferent kinds have been provided for this purpose and separate boxesor containers applied in some manner to the card. This oftentimesresulted in loss of the articles by reason of the more or less roughusage through the handling of the cards bycustomers. In the presentinstance, these disadvantages have been overcome by forming a card whichhas certain parts pressed therefrom to present an enclosure or box forsupporting and protecting the article to be vended. 1

the bod of the card and 2 the article or articles to be vended. In theshowingin the drawings, razor blades of the safety variety are shown asbeing vendedand consequently the various advertising matter 3 and 4correspond to the blades being vended. In or- In the accompanyingdrawings, 1 indicates der todraw attention to the razorblades, the cardmust be madeas ornamental as possible and consequently the advertisingor other matter may be done in colors and in addition, the varioustongues '5, 6, '7and, '8 are formed of a shape torpresent ornamentalopenings 9, 10 and 11 ,when the tongues are folded. g

In forming the tongues 5 to 8 inclusive, they are cut on three sideswhile at the various junctures 12, 13, 14, and 15 they are merelycreased. In .addition,the various tongues are creased along lines 16, 1718 and 19. This allows the tongues to be bent at two points asillustrated particularly in Figure 3. It will be noted'that the bendingline 15 permitsthe section '20 to extend at right angles to the, body 1and then the bending line 19 permits-the tongue 7 to extend parallelwith the body 1 so that it may be readily tucked in or projected throughthe slot 21 in tongue 8. The tongues 5 and 6 act in a similar way except that they are merelyfolded over and not interlocked as tongues 7and8.

In applying the articles 2 to the card, they are placed in the space 22and then the tongues 5 and 6 folded thereover. After this has been done,tongue 8 is, folded over the folded tongues 5 and'6 and finally thetongue 7 is folded to the position shown in Figure 3.

This completes the article and it is ready for display.

While in the arrangement shown in the drawings, a Maltese crossformation is provided by the openings 9 to 11 inclusive, other forms ofopenings may be provided by 1'6.- designing the various tongues. Asillustrated in Figure 1, the various openings are preferably providedwith a border line 23 and in keeping with this borderline, a border line24: is provided around the space 22, said border line mergingat therespective corners in the. respective uncut portions 25 whereby arectangular box-like enclosure is presented.

The front of the space 22 is preferably provided with printedmatter'presenting a package so that in a limited sense this part of thecard will simulate a package, of razor blades and the blades willactually be held in place by the various tongues 5 to 8 inclusive.

I claim:

1. A display vending card comprising a body, a plurality of tonguespressed from the body around a central section, each of said tonguesbeing foldable so as to enclose an article in said central section.

2. A display vending card providing a body formed with a plurality ofpressed out sections, each of said sections being foldable, one of saidsections having a slit for receiving the end of the opposite sectionwhereby the folded sections may be retained in a folded positionpresenting an article receiving container.

3. A display vending card comprising a body having a plurality oftongues pressed therefrom within the border thereof and surrounding acentral rectangular section, each of said tongues being foldable oversaid rectangular section, one of said tongues having a slit intermediateits length for receiving the diametrically opposite tongue.

4. A display vending card comprising a body of sheet material formedwith a. plurality of pressed out tongues within the borders of said bodysaid tongues being spaced around the rectangular solid section, each ofsaid tongues being bendable along two lines so as to present, whenfolded. a container, one of said fingers having a slit for receivingtherethrough one of the other fingers whereby the entire group offingers are held in a folded position.

FREDERICK H. DRIVER.

